Gift from the Sea Author: Anne Morrow Lindbergh | Language: English | ISBN:
B005DB6SVQ | Format: EPUB
Gift from the Sea Description
Over a quarter of a century after its first publication, the great and simple wisdom in this book continues to influence women's lives.
From the Hardcover edition.- File Size: 181 KB
- Print Length: 146 pages
- Page Numbers Source ISBN: 0679406832
- Publisher: Pantheon (August 10, 2011)
- Sold by: Random House LLC
- Language: English
- ASIN: B005DB6SVQ
- Text-to-Speech: Enabled
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This title was a recent selection for a book discussion group that I helped organize for my library. As the only male in the group, I felt somewhat compelled to offer token protest to the selection of this classic example of a "woman's book," but actually I was intrigued by it. Everything I had read about "Gift From the Sea" praised its meditative quality and I had to admit that the promise of that rather appealed to me.
I wound up reading the bulk of the book on Mothers' Day, which seemed quite appropriate, given that among the many issues Lindbergh addresses here is the need for mothers to find a balance between their own needs and those of their children and husbands. The need for time to one's self, a "room of one's own", the need for a spriritual dimension to one's existence--well, it seems so obvious that these needs have to be met if a woman--if any human being--is to be fulfilled and to be able to meet her (or his) responsibilities with joy rather than with dread. But the lessons that Anne Morrow Lindbergh taught in 1955 still need to be voiced in 2000--perhaps more than ever. Lindbergh seems prescient when she speaks of the dangers of the "life of multiplicity" which had already taken root in the immediate post-War era. We know all too well that it has not gotten any better in the past 50 years and that women's lives in particular have become more stressful and, to use Lindbergh's word, "fragmented" in the past half-century.
What distinguishes Lindbergh's book from today's current crop of self-help or New Age sprititual books though is its lyrical quality. Her careful, belletristic prose is soothing and, yes, meditative in and of itself.
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